US Pressure Strains Relations with Pakistan

With Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heading to Pakistan later this week, she is unlikely to receive a warm welcome from the public. While the Zardari government largely remains firmly on the side of a greater American influence in the nation’s political affairs, the public is increasingly having reservations about an alliance which is recent years has brought them only continuous war and financial ruin.

Moreover, last month the US threatened to attack Quetta, one of Pakistan’s largest cities and the capital of its largest province. While the US pressure has managed to convince the military to launch what is proving to be a difficult battle in South Waziristan, it is unlikely they will stop there, and Clinton’s visit will likely spark a new round of calls to action.

Author: Jason Ditz

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Maybe the secret plan is for Hillary to give a speech on Pakistani television with the intent of boring all the terrorists to death with her mind-numbing monotonic delivery. It would be superior to the actual plan, which is to bribe our Pakistani puppets to wage war on their own people, as if there is a finite number of extremists. Once we bomb them into oblivion, the problem is solved, right?

Of course, the alternate scenario is that our policies are creating an endless stream of terrorists. If my family was butchered by pilotless drones, I might be more than a little annoyed too. I might even harbor thoughts of lashing out at foreigners that had wiped out loved ones and left me homeless.

None of this enters the thick skull of a dim-wit like Hillary or her arrogant boss. They do not have to pay the price in blood or treasure for the hare-brained schemes they've unleashed on the rest of the world.